A photograph of a plat map showing the location of one of four Appomattox Indian Towns. On this site will be a farm called "Ettrick Banks" later Virginia State University. This was the site of one of the Indian Towns attacked by Nat Bacon in 1666.

Handwritten in a (Larger Format) Ledger Book. Some Blank Pages. Some Bleedthrough Obscures Text in Spots. Name Changes From Ashmun Institute to Lincoln University on April 4, 1866. Title Changes From "Summary of Operations" to "[Minutes of] the...

An Expanded Version of an Address Delivered at the Dedication of Ashmun Institute's First Building in 1856, First Published in 1857 in the Presbyterian Magazine and Republished in 1859 in "Home, the School, and the Church". This Printing Was Done...

William Mahone was a railroad engineer, a Confederate General, and a hero in the Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864. After the Civil War he was one of the people who helped establish the Readjuster Party. The Party's support of the public...

The home was built by Henry Johnson in 1865 after the end of the Civil War on Rome Street in Petersburg, VA. Henry Johnson had been born a slave on the old Fleet Plantation, now the site of Virginia State University. The house is still standing.

Handwritten and Hand-Paginated in a (smaller format) Ledger Book. Contains Blank Pages. "Lincoln University" is Used Starting in Mid-1866. Microfilming and Digitization Funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).

Leather Bound, Title on Spine: Library Lincoln University. 288-Page Ledger Book Containing Library Catalogue of Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University, signed by Wm. H. Miller of Lexington, KY (105 pages), With Additions Made to His Lists, and...

The Reverend Jacob Brinton Smith, DD Was Born March 1, 1822. He Was Ordained Deacon on December 25, 1845 by The Right Reverend Bosworth Smith, Bishop of Kentucky, Who Was Presiding Bishop From 1865 to 1884. In 1867, The Reverend J. Brinton Smith...

Leather Bound With Title on Spine, Minute Book of Faculty of Lincoln University. Pages 1-15 are hand-numbered. Cattered Blank Pages. Some Items are Inserted and Pasted in. Microfilming and Digitization of This Document Was Funded By a Grant From...

Handwritten and Hand-Paginated in a Ledger Book. Contains Blank Pages. Larger Format Than LU Book 1. 13 Pages in the Back of the Book are Written Upside Down -- Apparently Book Was Turned Upside Down and Notes Started From Back (pages 328-340 in...

When the cornerstone for the main building was laid in July of 1883, there was a program which included a parade to the campus by different organizations. Included in this parade were several of the black militia units. The unit shown here was...

Paine Institute Held Its First Class On January 1, 1884, In Rented Quarters On Broad Street in Augusta, GA. Among The First Group Of Young People Present That Morning Was John Wesley Gilbert, Who Stepped Ahead Of The Others And Enrolled As The...